How to signoff CICS terminal with a single command.

Moe Langley

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Oct 17, 2005, 4:40:46 AM10/17/05

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Guys

We have just moved from ACF2 to RACF in a CICS TS1.3 environment,
and have lost the facilty of logging off and disconnect in one go.

CESF only signs off , but does not disconnect the terminal unless we type
CESF LOGOFF.

Is there some way to do this with one single command like 'logoff '
May be an exit or something.
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Moe

Larsen Gunnar Arne

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Oct 17, 2005, 5:10:38 AM10/17/05

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Could be done with just a few cics commands in a small program.

******************************************************************
* TRANSACTION: OFF
******************************************************************
* ASM XOPTS(SP)
DFHEISTG DSECT
SGNOFF CSECT
EXEC CICS SIGNOFF
EXEC CICS ISSUE DISCONNECT
EXEC CICS RETURN
END

Regards
gunnar

John Oatman

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Oct 17, 2005, 8:18:01 AM10/17/05

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Here's a quick way to do this:

Develop/deploy a user-written program that contains the command 'XCTL PROGRAM(DFHSFP) INPUTMSG('CESF LOGOFF')'.
Create/install a user logoff transaction definition that is an equivalent of 'CESF'. A prime example would be 'OFF'. Specify the name of the user-written program.
Define the user logoff transaction definition to RACF as UACC(READ) in the appropriate resource classes.

You should be able to do this in less than 1 hour.....

Regards,

John R Oatman
JPMorganChase - Global Technology Infrastructure
Transaction Services-CICS
E-Mail: john....@jpmchase.com

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Chase, John

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Oct 17, 2005, 8:58:12 AM10/17/05

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CICS List On Behalf Of Moe Langley
>
> Guys
>
> We have just moved from ACF2 to RACF in a CICS TS1.3 environment,
> and have lost the facilty of logging off and disconnect in one go.
>
> CESF only signs off , but does not disconnect the terminal
> unless we type CESF LOGOFF.
>
> Is there some way to do this with one single command like 'logoff '
> May be an exit or something.
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

You can write your own signoff program, the gist of which might be something
like this:

EXEC CICS SIGNOFF NOHANDLE

EXEC CICS ISSUE DISCONNECT
EXEC CICS RETURN

Define your own transaction ID to invoke this program, or copy the
IBM-supplied CESF definition and change the program name to yours (ensure to
install your local copy of CESF ahead of IBM's)

-jc-

François LE MANER

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Oct 18, 2005, 4:24:02 AM10/18/05

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We have a transaction defined with TASKReq : PF3

Here is the code :

DFHEISTG
YTI93AC0 DFHEIENT
EXEC CICS ISSUE DISCONNECT.
END

Ed Weas

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Oct 19, 2005, 7:10:25 AM10/19/05

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Moe,

I had a similar issue and wrote a simple program that simply does an
EXEC CICS RETURN
TRANSID('CESF')
IMMEDIATE
INPUTMSG('CESF LOGOFF')
INPUTMSGLEN(11)
END-EXEC

I assigned several transactions (OFF, EXIT, LOGO, BYE, QUIT) to this program so a user can enter any of these transactions to quickly logoff from CICS.

Ed Weas
Solo Cup Company
(410)902-3006
mailto:Ed....@solocup.com

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